Passed the CISSP today! (at 100 questions )

Proud to say that I passed the CISSP today.

My strategies were to simply:

Use ai
Ask copilot to design a reading schedule to breakdown the book into manageable Active reading sessions.
Tell it each chapter start page and end page so it know how many pages each chapter is.
Tell it the percentage of each domain and which domains are in each chapter.
Tell it your test date or your goal to read the entire book.
Ask it to design a table that shows the date, time commitment, the task, the chapters and domains, and the number of pages to read. Make sure it makes sense to you. Ask it to refactor based on what you believe you can achieve. Its good to be honest with yourself and copilot here.
refactor your reading schedule as necessary. factor in days off, rest, and practice tests in between domains to measure and reinforce recall.

I did a chapter a week for three months straight every evening at 6pm. Saturday's I would try to read a whole chapter. Sundays are reserved for rest or practice questions.
Read each chapter from beginning to end... *a must*
Do the written labs for each chapter... *a must*
Do each chapter review. ... *a must*

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Take practice tests on weekend and domain review questions and go through each domain as you work through the book.
by reading each of the chapters and taking notes. And doing real world application and correlation to anchor the principles with prior experience you'll get the hang of what it intends to teach and groom you into... to thinking like upper management and not an engineer... focusing more on policy that technical solutions...
I was able to recall and correlate different domains with the questions that were presented in the actual test better this way.

Took me two tries and about 400 hours... of honest focused study.

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